National Invitation Tournament

A weekly look back at sports in the Lehigh Valley, in anniversaries of multiples of five years. June 15 2000—After a three-day wait due to rain and wet field conditions, Emmaus beats Waynesboro 4-2 to reach the PIAA Class 3A baseball final. 1995—Jen Potzman scores the game's only run on a wild pitch in the bottom of the sixth inning and Parkland wins its first official PIAA Class 3A softball title with a 1-0 win over previously unbeaten Baldwin. The Trojans had previously won an unrecognized state championship in 1975, although that title is later recognized by the PIAA. 1990—A bases-loaded walk by Kim Miller in the bottom of the eighth inning gives Allen 7-6...

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